Excel 2010 PowerPivot & Advanced Business Intelligence Tools

Enter the very hot world of BI, Power Pivot, DAX, and big data. This investment of your time is a no brainer.

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Published 7/2015
English

Course Description

This course takes up where the Optima Train Excel 2010 Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts course leaves off. It has two primary themes, each ultimately related to data analysis with pivot tables. First, it teaches you a number of methods for importing external data (from a database, text files, or other sources) into Excel for analysis. Second, it devotes considerable time to the PowerPivot add-in introduced with Excel 2010. To learn Excel PowerPivot and Business Intelligence Tools quickly and effectively, download the companion exercise files so you can follow along with the instructor by performing the same actions he is showing you on the videos.

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“When I first looked up this site I was a bit skeptical, but I soon realized how amazing these courses are. They have helped me excel in all my business classes. The PowerPivot course now makes business analytics easy and at my fingertips." - Wilson Xu, STUDENT

“The Optima Train two part series on Pivot Tables is pure gold! The material is so amazingly thorough and clear that anyone watching the videos and doing the exercises provided will without a doubt become a true expert at working with Pivot Tables and likely become a hero at work by applying and sharing this new-found knowledge. There is nothing like it on the market." - Phil, FORMER TREASURY OPERATIONS MANAGER - EXXONMOBIL

99.9% of Excel users do not use PowerPivot but those that do are in elite company. Power Pivot allows end users with no business intelligence or data analytics training to develop data models and calculations. The tide has shifted where the knowledge worker can perform analysis on millions of records without using specialized IT software or the help of business intelligence consultants. Learning PowerPivot and DAX will take your Excel skills to the very top. People who know Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts should take the next logical step and learn a skill set that is in very high demand and in short supply. Become an indispensable resource at your work place. Simplify your work and personal life by learning this extremely powerful tool.

This is the most comprehensive Excel PowerPivot and Advanced Business Intelligence course and has 40 short video tutorials. The Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts course serves as a prequel to this highly valuable course. There is zero fluff and no time wasted in this course. The instructor, Dr. Chris, has decades of experience using Excel in real-world settings solving complex business problems. There is no quicker way to learn Excel PowerPivot than to watch these videos and follow along with the free companion exercise workbookswhich are downloadable. If you want to stand out among your colleagues, earn a promotion, further your professional development, save tons of hours every year, and learn Excel PowerPivot and Advanced Business Intelligence Tools in the quickest and simplest manner then this course is for you!

You'll have lifetime online access to watch the videos whenever you like, and there's a Q&A forum right here on Udemy where you can post questions.

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What are the requirements?

Microsoft Office 2010 and the free PowerPivot for Excel 2010 add-in

What am I going to get from this course?

An understanding of relational databases, a great source for pivot tables, and how queries can be used to import the data you need

How to import data from various relational sources into Excel with Microsoft Query

An understanding of how the new PowerPivot add-in adds significant power to Excel’s existing data analysis tools

How to use the PowerPivot user interface for Excel 2010

How to import data into PowerPivot and how to use PowerPivot to create relationships between relatable tables

How to build pivot tables from PowerPivot data

How to use the DAX language in PowerPivot to create calculated columns and measures, and why DAX is so powerful

How to create named sets, hierarchies, and KPIs (key performance indicators) with PowerPivot

How PowerPivot is related to OLAP cubes

What is the target audience?

Any competent Excel users who want to be on the leading edge with Excel’s latest and most powerful data analysis tools